An infrastructure for associating labels (metadata) with Internet content. "It was originally designed to help parents and teachers control what children access on the Internet, but it also facilitates other uses for labels, including code signi ...

Announced annually on or near Thomas Jefferson's birthday (April 13), "the Jefferson Muzzles are awarded as a means to draw national attention to abridgments of free speech and press and, at the same time, foster an appreciation for those tenets ...

Banned Books Week is observed during the last week of September each year. The American Library Association's planning materials for this event are available on this site. Documents include frequently asked questions, a press kit for the event, and ...

This site's Online Safety Guide covers, by age level and activity type, the online risks children and teenagers face. There is also a directory of online safety resources including filtering products, advice on reporting Internet safety problems, and ...

Web site for a "non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comics community." Contains news, information on legal cases the CBLDF has helped defend, and a bibliography and timeline of ...

Analysis "intended for use by free speech advocates to oppose the installation of blocking software such as Cyberpatrol, Surfwatch, NetNanny or Cybersitter in public libraries." Written by an attorney, and "revised November 9, 1997. ...

Features critiques of filtering software (programs that are used to block access to potentially objectionable sites on the Internet) and information about how to disable these programs. Peacefire.exe is a program (free download from the site) that di ...

The American Civil Liberties Union site with information about the appeal to the Supreme Court to overturn the Communications Decency Act. The Supreme Court heard the case March 19, 1997. Their decision was handed down June 26, 1997.

The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)is a worldwide library cooperative whose online catalog, WorldCat, contains over one billion items from over 10,000 libraries. Browse this list of banned books that made it onto their list of the top 1000 book ...

"The Office for Intellectual Freedom is charged with implementing ALA policies concerning the concept of intellectual freedom as embodied in the Library Bill of Rights, the Association???s basic policy on free access to libraries and library mat ...

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